Division doesn’t lower your rent. It doesn’t pay your medical bills. It doesn’t fix a single road. Yet this is what the oligarchs keep selling you.
JD Vance posted a video after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. He framed the whole debate around domestic terrorism. He hinted that unless the so-called “extreme left” is destroyed, there can be no unity. Elon Musk immediately echoed him, declaring unity impossible with “evil fanatics.”
This is not about truth. It is about power. Musk is a nerdy oligarch with a political obsession. Vance is bankrolled by Peter Thiel and tied to Palantir, a surveillance company with deep government contracts. These are not neutral voices. These are ruling-class operatives.
And now Trump’s team is turning Kirk’s death into political capital. The White House is openly discussing stripping left-leaning nonprofits of their tax status, targeting them with corruption laws, and even floating RICO charges. There’s talk of labeling Antifa and other networks as “domestic terrorist organizations.” This is tragedy repackaged into a weapon. Not to heal the country. Not to solve material problems. But to expand state power and consolidate control.
Meanwhile, Turning Point USA claims it has received 37,000 new applications for student chapters since Kirk’s death. Anger and grief are being converted directly into political organization on the right.
The Tools of Division
The pattern is clear:
Media cycles push “radical left violence” while healthcare, rent, and wages are ignored.
Political leaders use tragedy to mobilize fear instead of fixing structural problems.
Social media amplifies outrage because outrage sells.
Both sides have suffered violence. Trump himself survived two assassination attempts. Democratic politicians have been targeted too, including Harris’s campaign office and Democratic state legislators in Pennsylvania and Minnesota. Everyone knows violence crosses party lines. Yet elites frame it as one-sided to keep you locked in fear.
What Unity Looks Like in Practice
Unity is not a speech. It is a material action. Workers are organizing together across party lines. Tenants fighting landlords together. Nurses and teachers are demanding fair pay together. Communities are pushing for investment in housing and infrastructure instead of endless wars. Real unity is about cooperation around shared needs, not tribal division.
Anticipating the Fear Narrative
Yes, extremists exist. But oligarchs exaggerate their size and their danger, because fear is the most effective tool to keep you divided. Their greatest fear is not terrorism. It is you realizing that workers, united across old lines, hold the real power.
Closing
So ask yourself: when Musk, Vance, or Trump preach division, does it make your rent cheaper? Does it pay your medical bills? Does it fix the road outside your house? The answer is no. Division keeps you weak. Unity from below is the only thing that threatens them. That is why they will never say it out loud.
